The ultimate function of morality

 Since Nietzsche philosophers have increasingly thought that “truth” is more or less a relative thing because words or metaphors hide bedrock truths. Then they go on to say therefore all truth is relative. Nietzsche wondered whether power or music or dance was a clearer way bedrock truths could be expressed.

I think the best human expression of reality exists in the bedrock of biology, which is at the origin of all social behavior, including philosophy and religion. As long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. This will-to-the-survival of our genes is at the core of our being. As Edward O. Wilson put it : "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function." Edward O. Wilson.

I only quibble with last line “morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function” because I believe that natural law includes our material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, so it affirms the rational science inherent in classical natural law as aiding in our evolution to Godhood. Natural law in theological materialism brings a conservatism grounded in the order of material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking.

Redefining Godhood as supermaterial and evolved to in the material world

The will to power is one of Nietzsche's most misunderstood ideas. At various times Nietzsche described the will to power as a psychological, biological, or metaphysical principle. It seems to me that when Nietzsche declared that “God is dead” he also killed the spiritual view of God, which is the basic definition of god, so those who think of Nietzsche's philosophy as spiritual and not hereditary or biological are mistaken. All social behavior is grounded in biology, including philosophy and religion. Nietzsche wrote: “Wherever I found a living thing, I found there the will to power.” ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra") Philosophers since Nietzsche seem to fear biology or sociobiology making inroads in the humanities.

The reality that all social behavior is grounded in biology doesn't kill God it redefines God as supermaterial and evolved to in the material world. So only the traditional spiritual view of God is dead. Nietzsche's overman needs to be biologically evolved to, all the way to Godhood. The will to Godhood better describes the will to power.

This noble and sacred goal can be attained by different political methods, including representative democracy. All men are born with the desire to survive and reproduce successfully but natural rights do not guarantee results, since evolution cannot always guarantee results. This suggest that if the noble statesman of the future do see guardianship of the state as avoiding sedition and discord culminating in civil war, they will honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc. and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Then they will protect each ethnostate from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Then we can all get on with evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood.

The same great denial of the biological origin of social behavior by both the democrats and republicans is destroying us

Since Biden was elected president the charges of “systemic racism” have been increasingly hurled at whites by the left and by the media which is then hotly denied by conservatives, and both sides completely deny the biological origin of social behavior. The blacks and the left won't admit that there is any racism behind their motives any more than the whites will admit any systemic white racism, and racism continues to be confounded with supremacism.

The reality is that human nature has been ethnocentrc and racialist since humans became humans because in the old tribal days ethnic or group-selection was the best way for individuals to successfully survive, so altruism, or being for others, was naturally limited mainly to kin and ethnic group because they shared the same genes which strive for successful survival and reproduction. Those genes are still with us today. (see the science of sociobiology)

But as one historian put it, what formerly divided us can put us back together again. It would be far more realistic to talk of un-assimilating differences rather than about superiority/inferiority. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc.

The same great denial of the biological origin of social behavior by both the democrats and republicans is destroying us.

The cultural left have created a nightmare that is the opposite of humaneness

A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., with a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Liberals---and even some conservatives---say you can't have ethnostates and still hold humane values, but they are wrong. We are fragmenting into an alienated nation of competing races with a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process.

An ethnopluralism of ethnostates is in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior and in accord with real human nature, which contains not only gender differences, but is kin-centered, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

The cultural left, the cultural Marxists, have created a nightmare that is stripping the very human nature out of the people, which is the opposite of humaneness.

Why is it so hard to find or develop conservative artists? (from the archive)

There is something gracious, Burkean, in Robert Lurie  (Chronicles) letting Bob Dylan off the hook for Dylan's 1960's legacy of decadent radical songs, but I can't quite do it. Lurie points to the eight years of, sort of, conservative songs and retreads of traditional songs ("Nashville Skyline", "New Morning", etc), as well as Dylan's years of trying, sort of, to have a traditional home-life and marriage. It seems sad and pathetic to see the hoops that conservative's have to jump through to try to find viable conservative artists who might actually appeal to the people, even to the point of squeezing Dylan into that format.

Why is it so hard to find or develop conservative artists? I think the fault lies in the basic and essential rejection of materialism at the heart of Christianity and traditional religions---even given the valiant efforts of great religious philosophers like Aquinas who laboriously tried to salvage a place for real life, real living, within the otherwise deeply ascetic and monastic ethos of true Christianity. This anti-real-life-materialism has had more to do with the decline of religion and the absence of conservative artists than anything else.

Great art does affirm the sacred, that is a positive mantra on this blog, but it is nearly impossible to affirm anti-living and an exclusive inward life, especially for creative young people. It was easier for Christianity, and for art to affirm Christianity, in the days before science, which can be seen in the great art of that pre-modern period. The Ancient Greeks did not have that great spiritual blockade to work against and their life-affirming art shows it.

What we speak of here, and with theological materialism, is the Inward Path to the Father Within of traditional religion transformed (not rejected) in the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood, the God first only symbolically experienced in the Inward Path. This transformation can then help provide a way out of this conundrum for conservative artists. The Great Spiritual Blockade has drained the life out of modern conservative art---and religion as well.  But more deeply it has blocked the sacred material evolution of life to Godhood.

Dylan didn’t show us the way out of the decadent 1960's, which is what he would have had to do to absolve himself of the lefty damage he did, even if many of his lyrics were pure gibberish. He is now back to endlessly touring and partying like a rock star, sporting the almost ridiculous persona of an old white blues singer.

Why non-college graduates who voted for Trump are actually politically wiser than the college graduates who voted for Biden

The big divide in America today is between college graduates who voted for Biden and and non-college graduates who voted for Trump. That's a big problem for America because the college educated have been thoroughly brainwashed. And the percentage of non-college graduates is falling as the number of college graduates is rising.

High European art and culture has been virtually replaced in our colleges and universities by the political correctness of cultural Marxism. As Boyd Cathey put it, our colleges and universities teach---really brainwash---"racial oppression by the white race of black and brown people, and sexual oppression by men of women. Thus, reading our history and literature to discover deeply embedded examples of “racism” and “white supremacy,” and of “male exploitation” and the “oppression of women,” has become the central characteristic of the college-classroom experience...Cultural Marxist ideologues inculcate the theories of “critical race theory” and the “feminization of history,” to students who have already, in most cases, endured years of poor education and early indoctrination in our public schools. They have been “softened up” for this process..." (Chronicles, Nov 2018.)

And the corruption of the Media in America is at bottom also the consequence of decades of teaching a dumbed-down version of "postmodernism" and cultural Marxism to journalists and cultural influencers.

The non-college graduates for the most part have absorbed the reality of the biological origin of social behavior, which says that human nature is genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection---even if they do not know that this view of human nature was largely affirmed by Darwin and later by sociobiology.

So the reality is that non-college graduates who voted for Trump (and college grads who have managed to avoid the Cultural Marxist brainwashing) are actually politically wiser than the college graduates who voted for Biden and who think of non-college graduates as a bunch of deplorable rubes.

The great dilemma, absurdity, and tragedy of the left and the right

 Today in America the left thinks the right are racists, the right vigorously denies it and says the left are socialist/communists or even racists eg. like the Black Lives Matter movement. The great dilemma, absurdity, and tragedy of this position is that human nature is racist and ethnocentric and has been since humans became humans, as the evolutionary sciences like sociobiology have been trying to tell us for years. What is missing today is knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior which came with Darwin and later sociobiology showing that real human nature is and has been genetically kin and ethnic centered (ie. racist and ethnocentric) with group selection as the main unit of successful survival and reproduction, followed by individual selection.

Here are a few sociobiological quotes: "Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." (David Sloan Wilson). “Hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” (E.O. Wilson “The Social Conquest of the Earth.”) "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact...." Edward O. Wilson

Human nature has been and remains genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection. The real challenge of ethnocentric and xenophobic human nature is to move beyond the supremacism that has plagued it. This suggest that if the noble statesman of the future see guardianship of the state as avoiding sedition, discord, and civil war they will honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc., and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Then they will protect each ethnostate from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

The big question of course remains: how long will the knowledge of real human nature be blocked and distorted?

Economic ethnopluralism

 When economists ask how to understand economic value, like virtually all subjects today, they overlook or even bury biology and sociobiology. As Robert Bellafiore Jr. defines them, (Modern Age Winter 2020) economists come up with ideas like the “labor theory of value,” according to which “a good’s objective worth is proportionate to the amount of effort expended to create it, or the Austrians theory of “methodological individualism,” shifting the emphasis from the objective factors of production to the subjective preferences of consumers.”

It seems to me that economics derives, like most things in culture, from the biological origin of social behavior, and by an instinctive and rational deduction about the nature of man and from accurately defining human nature. Sociobiology has taught us that human nature is genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection. This seems to point toward economic ethnopluralism in economics.

The old classical conservative saying goes, as the people change, the culture changes, and that goes for economics too. With America increasingly split along apparently unassimilable ethnic lines, the way to bring economic, moral, and political health back to America is to return power to the different regions and states, where each state can bring their own distinct balance to economics as ethnostates, protected internally and externally by federalism. The solution is not to destroy the free enterprise system, which has given us the highest standard of living in history, but to bring the free enterprise system back in accord with the new economic nationalism of economic ethnopluralism. Economic nationalism made our nation great in the first place. Economic nationalism protected the jobs and life-style of the nation with such things as putting up tariffs against globalist intrusions into the nation's manufacturing and business life. This was not unfair government interference, this was rationally protecting the life of the nation. If there still exists a will to survive in America, eventually states or regions can become ethnostates with economic ethnopluralism prevailing.

Speculation on big bangs, black holes, and life in the multiverse

Big Bangs are like powerful black holes that have gathered massive, dense, light, and matter from a surrounding universe. Then the big-bang-black-holes explode and expand into new universes moving away at velocities that increase with their distance. Eventually parts of that expanding universe contract again into a single point in another big-crunch-black-hole before beginning the cycle over with huge black holes that explode with big bangs into new universes. In the multiverse universes are like galaxies in our universe.

The speeding expanding universes move so far away from one another that any life that develops in the expanding galaxies would be virtually lost to one another, which could explain why we seem to be the only life in the multiverse. Since this whole process has gone on forever, far-away life could have developed over the vast endless spaces to amazing degrees of sophistication and intelligence and we wouldn't know of it---although someday we might.

Natural law in evolutionary conservatism and ethnostates

"American revolutionaries favored individual autonomy, and the system of government established under the Constitution was based on that value." (David Gordon) but Bacon's scientific method of "examining experience, organizing data, seeing causes from effects, and then discerning patterns and law-like principles," went on to develop the science of sociobiology, which has affirmed that human nature is genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection.

The revival of human nature and natural law by sociobiology is superior to the classical natural rights promoted by Leo Strauss, and it supersedes or reforms Christian natural law. In theological materialism natural law includes our material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, so it affirms the rational science inherent in classical natural law as aiding in our evolution to Godhood. Natural law in evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the order of material evolution to Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking.

Natural rights suggest that all men are born with the desire to survive and reproduce successfully but natural rights do not guarantee results, since evolution cannot always guarantee results. This suggest that if the noble statesman of the future see guardianship of the state as avoiding sedition and discord culminating in civil war, they will honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc., and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Then they will protect each ethnostate from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Toward evolutionary sacred art philosophy (from the archive)

 I see cultural and art creations not strictly as only the intention of the creators, not the consequence of ideological systems (see the French), not merely libidinal forces, and not the consequence of historical materialism, or economic determinism, although all of these are included in cultural creations to a certain extent.

I see cultural and art creations as primarily the consequence of biological and genetic instincts related to successful survival and reproduction, along with the deeper sacred activating forces of life and evolution, as defined in theological materialism. This includes, along with the instinctive survival needs of the author, the survival needs of group-selection within which the author exists.

To change a statement by Roland Barthe about literature really being capitalist language speaking and not the author speaking, it is biology speaking deeper than the author's voice, and also speaking is the sacred goal of biological evolution activating creation to evolve toward Godhood. The new anti-intention, anti-author criticism seems largely to be an attempt to empower the critic as the main center of literary and cultural meaning, a bold intellectual grab for power by middlemen, intentional or not, who tend to give works illusions never intended and not instinctively or biologically present.

Why the political dissimulations of today are destroying us: nature and human nature as a ground or limit to human action need to be affirmed

The denial of nature and real human nature is the basis of Marxism and the political dissimulations of modern liberalism, which are based on flawed definitions of human nature. They have brought us destructive civil disruptions, and even civil war, which are now increasing across the world within unworkable multicultural multi-ethnic societies.

Is our identity “hardware” or “software”? Although there is a gene-culture co-evolution or "dual inheritance" that takes place between nature and nurture, if we split the difference between nature and nurture, which some think is 70% nature and 30% nurture, we could come up with a reasonable political philosophy.

Modern liberalism is about 100 percent on the 30% side of nurture and conservatives are more or less on that 70% nature side. Liberalism wants the government to insure a collective individual freedom, which tends to move toward socialism/communism and ends up taking away individual freedom, while conservatism want unchecked individual freedom, especially for capitalism (libertarianism), which tends to create societies ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income that end up taking away individual freedom.

If we look a little deeper at what that 70% nature side is telling us about human nature, the science of sociobiology and common sense show us that human nature has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, territorial, and even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has found that in successful survival and reproduction "within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." And “hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” (“The Social Conquest of the Earth.”)  Wilson doesn't emphasize enough that altruism was developed to enhance the survival success of kin and ethnic group---being-for-others almost disappears beyond the related genetic pool.

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against this basic human nature, with such experiments as Marxism, but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.

Real human nature suggests that ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are the best political configuration for humans beings to live within. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could even be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. It may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states to move toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, but that is far preferable to radical and marauding political dissimulations of today which are destroying us.

Nature and real human nature as a ground or limit to human action need to be affirmed.

How does it feel, conservatives, to be on your own; is there a direction home?

Preserving conservative values has taken a turn for the worse as the Tech Oligarchs have now taken away free speech for conservatives and increased the demands of woke cultural Marxism, with even deeper threats of job loss, financial ruin, and social ostracism for anyone who objects. Hollywood/New York/Washington, the media, and big tech are instituting a neo-Marxist revolution against Western civilization. Who thought it could happen in America? Is the cultural situation of conservative Christians a lost cause?

Where did conservatism go wrong? Way back around the 1950's, at the beginning of the modern conservative movement, the foundation of real conservatism was purged from "conservatism" by people like William Buckley. That is, the largely biological origin of much of human social behavior, from which real conservatism rises, was defined as politically incorrect, bigoted, and even evil. Modern conservatism began to die even as it was beginning. But the conservative biologically or genetic origin of human nature remains kin-centered, gender-defined, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, group-selecting, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection followed by individual selection. But the sociobiological way to justify and save conservatism was not and is still not mentioned by conservatives or by liberals, other than as something evil.

The reality of real human nature points toward a deeply conservative political/cultural solution which could bring about an ethnopluralism of ethnostates within our democratic republic, perhaps with only a few amendments to the constitutional separation of powers and states. Different ethnic groups can then politically and culturally conduct themselves the way they want to in their own regions and ethnostates. We could retain federalism and subsidiarity to defend and balance the states together, because we need the geopolitical heft of a large nation to defend ourselves in the big world.

That is the authentically conservative, evolutionary conservative, way to live healthy lives.

What happens when the people feel their rights and freedoms have been taken from them?

How many Trump and MAGA supporters or Black Lives Matter people would now secretly support a fascist dictator in bringing about their worldview? We don't need fascism on the left or the right, the world is too populated and power is too fluid for any one group to enslave all the other groups; the consequences of trying to do so will be "too dangerous to its temporary beneficiaries," as E. O. Wilson put it. In other words the crowded world will gang up on and destroy any group that claims exclusive rule over all the other groups. What we need is a gradual movement toward ethnopluralism.

Real human nature has been defined as political incorrect. Hollywood/New York/Washington, the media, big tech, and the schools together have blocked human nature. Real human nature is genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

This time we need real separation, that is, ethnostates designed for the freedom of distinctive ethnic cultures, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenites, Marxists, etc.

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against human nature, with such experiments as Marxism, but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.

Both the left and the right have been tragically wrong in defining “racism” and “systematic racism”

Yesterday both Biden and Harris typically defined the pro-Trump protesters at the White House with “systemic white racism” not seeing or acknowledging the black racism within the Black Lives Matter movement over the summer.

Both the left and the right have been tragically wrong in defining “racism” and “systematic racism.” Real human nature has been defined as politically incorrect behavior. What is missing is knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior which came with Darwin and later sociobiology showing that real human nature is genetically kin and ethnic centered (ie. racist and ethnocentric), with group selection as the main unit of successful survival and reproduction.

Human nature has always first preferred kin and related ethnic group because this preference was successful in survival and reproduction, so it was instinctively, genetically, retained within basic human nature. Ethnic groups of related genes have numerous reasons for cooperating more successfully and harmoniously than with other ethnic groups. As Edward O. Wilson said, "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool.”

We could halt and reverse the decline of America by transforming the socially destructive and mistaken way of defining “systematic racism” and by correctly defining racism and ethnocentrism as a central part of real human nature. Then, as Wilmot Robertson said, the new (yet old) solution to the division of the nation, which the liberals and cultural Marxists have willing and consciously created with the help of the media and the schools, is to form ethnostates or an ethnopluralism of ethnostates.

We can honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc., and by advocating the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

The leftist democratic win in Georgia and in the Senate majority show that racial demographics is destiny

A majority of Black voters brought the win for the Democrats in Georgia and in the United States Senate majority.

Unfortunately the human reality that racial demographics is destiny has been declared to be “politically incorrect” and even taboo by the deceitful cultural Marxism that rules us, so Americans are more shocked than they should be by what has happened to their country.

How will we deal with the demographic changes in America when we know that different ethnic groups create different cultures and as the demographics change the culture changes?

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. In the U. S. this could be accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through adapting the U.S. constitutional separation of powers and states, with ethnostates protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers.

Nothing else will save us from the civil insurrection brought on by racial demographic changes within a democracy. Fascism, like the socialism that the Biden administration will now bring us, gives too much power to dimwitted big government against the freedom of regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates.

Biological signaling and art theory (from the archive)

Theories on art from evolutionary psychology tend to take the arrogance and humbug out of philosophies of art. For example, art is seen as an extension of sexual selection, which itself is an extension of the more practical and efficient natural selection. Denis Dutton has done excellent work in examining, with very clear writing, the origin of art. These studies got me thinking about how to distinguish individual-selection and group-selection in art, which has not been much written about.

Individualistic art can be seen as the personal ornament of the individual artist, which supposedly displays the intelligence, skill, and great leisure and richness of the artist, as a signal of the fitness of the artist, especially (and originally) in the mating game (think of Picasso). Whereas art created for the group can signal the fitness and power of the group (think of elaborate religious art), which can then reward the individual artists for their great affirmations of the group, and more importantly enhance the group in competition with other groups.

We might then say that since group-selection is the central unit of selection in humans, as E. O. Wilson has recently affirmed, group-selection would define and create the higher art. History seems to show this as true with the greatest art usually defined as art that affirms what the group holds most sacred. 

This kind of explanation brings art theory back to biology, back to life, and forward to the extension and evolution of life---we can then better see the wild abstractions of art philosophy through the ages for what they were, often empty signaling on the part of individual philosophers or artists.  We are looking for truth and reality regarding art, which is perhaps is our form of signaling.

The apotheosis and idolization of only words and ideas

 The apotheosis and idolization of words and ideas alone brought us spiritualism, deification, and God, but it is a spiritualism and God unattached to real physical objects, spiritualism and God became words and language and definition only. And so the “truth” became words and language unattached to real physical objects. Priests and “intellectuals” became the purveyors of spiritualism, deification, truth, and God, using words only. And so the real world of objects slipped away from the minds of intellectuals and their students.

We never, in reality, move beyond the object. Religion and philosophy think that they can move beyond the material or supermaterial object, but they are creating false, non-object absolutes. They create Gods of non-objects and definitions, which are not Gods.

Rational and religious categories can define objects but the definitions will always be the shadows of objects. This means that Plato needs to be trans-valued: it is the mystical definitions that are the shadows, and it is the objects that are reality.

Godhood is an Absolute Mind in an Absolute Body and not merely a Mind. Godhood is not beyond form and structure, Godhood is Absolute Supermaterial Form and Structure. There is no need to put up a great spiritual blockade against the material world if ascending levels of Godhood are seen as supermateriality which we evolve to from the material world.

We are not able to fully conceptualize Godhood at this stage in our evolving intelligence but this does not mean that Godhood is therefore non-conceptualizable. It takes a God to accurately conceptualize a God, and when this is done it will be a supermaterial mind conceptualizing within a supermaterial body, not a non-material body-less mind.

We need to abide strictly within material and supermaterial objects. This is the base of Theological Materialism. The great allure of seeing or experiencing the virtual God Within of the Involutionary Inward Path must not put up a Great Spiritual Blockade against evolving to Real Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution.